Hugh Falconer was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, Burma, and most of the Mediterranean islands and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He studied the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape.
- Occupation
- botanist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, geologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 29, 1808
- Died
- January 31, 1865
